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Comment by DrBill on February 26, 2009 at 8:34

exactement mon frere! les lignes des fuites sont partout dans le citie!

Samedi nous serons rebelle contre l'homme de Bogue!

Premium Member Comment by nathan on February 26, 2009 at 7:37

Comment by DrBill on February 26, 2009 at 7:14

J'accuse Monsieur Bugs! Je refuse votre carte patriarcal. Il faut nous avon une strategie surreal ou situationiste - comme ca ...


Theory of the Dérive



One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive,(1) a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.

In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.

But the dérive includes both this letting-go and its necessary contradiction: the domination of psychogeographical variations by the knowledge and calculation of their possibilities. In this latter regard, ecological science, despite the narrow social space to which it limits itself, provides psychogeography with abundant data.

The ecological analysis of the absolute or relative character of fissures in the urban network, of the role of microclimates, of distinct neighborhoods with no relation to administrative boundaries, and above all of the dominating action of centers of attraction, must be utilized and completed by psychogeographical methods. The objective passional terrain of the dérive must be defined in accordance both with its own logic and with its relations with social morphology.

In his study Paris et l’agglomération parisienne (Bibliothèque de Sociologie Contemporaine, P.U.F., 1952) Chombart de Lauwe notes that “an urban neighborhood is determined not only by geographical and economic factors, but also by the image that its inhabitants and those of other neighborhoods have of it.” In the same work, in order to illustrate “the narrowness of the real Paris in which each individual lives . . . within a geographical area whose radius is extremely small,” he diagrams all the movements made in the space of one year by a student living in the 16th Arrondissement. Her itinerary forms a small triangle with no significant deviations, the three apexes of which are the School of Political Sciences, her residence and that of her piano teacher.

Such data — examples of a modern poetry capable of provoking sharp emotional reactions (in this particular case, outrage at the fact that anyone’s life can be so pathetically limited) — or even Burgess’s theory of Chicago’s social activities as being distributed in distinct concentric zones, will undoubtedly prove useful in developing dérives.

If chance plays an important role in dérives this is because the methodology of psychogeographical observation is still in its infancy. But the action of chance is naturally conservative and in a new setting tends to reduce everything to habit or to an alternation between a limited number of variants. Progress means breaking through fields where chance holds sway by creating new conditions more favorable to our purposes. We can say, then, that the randomness of a dérive is fundamentally different from that of the stroll, but also that the first psychogeographical attractions discovered by dérivers may tend to fixate them around new habitual axes, to which they will constantly be drawn back.

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on February 23, 2009 at 19:42

Here's a route map. It's just a suggestion at the moment. Click it for the hi-rez:

And here's the interactive version: Interactive Route Map

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on February 23, 2009 at 14:07

I've put together a proposed route plan. Here's the elevation profile. Click it for hi-rez.

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on February 23, 2009 at 11:02

I'm gonna try and map a course through these that'll maximise the downhills. Should be fun.

Art Almanac has the big list of galleries. There's 22 just in Paddington.

Comment by Jon B on February 22, 2009 at 23:41

amazing. i had no idea there were that many galleries in sydney, let alone the eastern suburbs!

Premium Member Comment by Lea Robbo on February 22, 2009 at 22:32

Map will be provided with galleries plotted on it. Skaters' progress 'choose your own adventure' style, picking streets they want to skate and art they want to see (and then later pubs they want to inhabit) Below are some options for the art nerds:

Art Gallery of NSW
1. The Late Landscape Paintings of Horace Trenerry (Australian Collection Focus Room, Ground Level).
As I have a love for Australian Landscape Painting, I’ll definitely be checking this out
2. Art Express 09 – HSC Artworks
For further info on current exhibitions:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/current

2. Australian Centre For Photography
257 Oxford St, Paddington
Batteries Not Included
12 emerging artists and the filmmaker Paul Winkler investigate photo media. Here they splice photography with performance, reanimate found images and mechanise the moving image.
http://tmp.acp.org.au/current/

3. Eva Breuer Art Dealer
83 Moncur St, Woollahra
Summer Exhibition 2009
Mostly oil paintings and works on paper by Authur Boyd, Garry Shead, Sidney Nolan, Brian Dunlop, John Olsen and more. I’m a big fan of this style of Australian Modern Art. This genre is also covered at the AGNSW, though the AGNSW does not seem to exhibit Shead, and I have a great love for his work.
http://evabreuerartdealer.com.au/home.html

4. Gallery 9
9 Darley St, Darlinghust
South-East
Michael Taylor
Taylor’s work presents semi-abstract landscapes with figures, using lots of texture and colour.
http://gallery9.com.au/

5. Harrison Galleries (Australian Contemporary Art)
294 Glenmore Road, Paddington
Bullet Proof
Doug Bartlett
Cover the canvas with random images and themes, using stencils, spray paint and oil pencils. These assemblages of hand drawn and collaged motifs reflect urban culture: muscle cars, playboy bunnies and TV heroes.
http://www.harrisongalleries.com.au/exhibitions/bullet-proof

6. Hogarth Galleries Aboriginal Art Centre
7 Walker Lane, Paddington
‘Our life...Our way’
Samantha Hobson
This artist creates powerful abstract paintings, which often impart strong social comments. These comments are passionately conveyed in splashes and swirls of bright paint, and more delicately in traditional shades of ochre.
http://www.aboriginalartcentres.com/pages/11.html

7. King Sreet Gallery on William
177 Willian St, Darlinghurst
Licorice allsorts
This gallery focuses on emerging and mid-career Australian artists. Their work is across all mediums; paintings, works on paper, limited edition prints, sculpture, mixed media and installations.
http://www.kingstreetgallery.com.au/current.html

8. Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington
The Glorious Undead Part II
Presented by the collective ‘and/or’
Through new media and installation, a world of intrigue, terror and fantasy are brought to life.
http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/galleries/kudos/exhibitions/09_Glorious...

9. MCA
New Acquisitions 2008
Presents works by contemporary Australian artists purchased by the MCA over the past 12 months. It features a major new neon installation by Brook Andrew, a triple-screen environment by Andrew Sunley Smith, a porcelain bust by Ah Xian, and a group of 200 shell worked slippers by Esme Timbery.
http://mca.com.au/

10. Outre’ Gallery
Overlap
Audrey Kawasaki
This gallery is currently exhibiting a small selection of Kawasaki works ahead of a large exhibition in 2010.
Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter and erotic artist, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of adolescent girls. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels. Her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga.
http://outregallery.com/browse.aspx?Category=165

11. Tap Gallery
278 Palmer Street, Darlinghurst
Boy’s Life
30 Japanese artists depict Japanese gay life, featuring munga illustrat

Comment by Kanufi on January 23, 2009 at 18:24

slide glove art

what sort of galleries are on the cards.

Comment by DrBill on January 22, 2009 at 10:36

Philistines! (aaargh) For your moral and aesthetic edification you will all be required to sip on cocktails served in surreal oppenhein furry cups from my personal internal wine cask/pouch/scrotum ...

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